Shane Ross (Independent)

I support the request for a debate on the possible strikes at the airports. I do not know, nor does anybody in this House, whether they will take place. There is a case to be made for pointing out to those who are holding the nation to ransom that Sustaining Progress promised industrial peace. It seems to me that the Sustaining Progress agreement is only meant to be kept by one side and not by the other and that SIPTU and any other little branch of it — it may not involve the main union, I do not know about the internal workings of trades unions — can hold the country to ransom at will.